Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hockey is to be adopted as the style of play for intercollegiate games, according to the announcement made yesterday by representatives of seven eastern colleges who met in New York Sunday to form the Intercollegiate Hockey Association. The University was represented and agreed to the six-man ruling. The decision as to whether the University will become a member of the Association rests, however, with the Athletic Committee, which will probably meet this week. There will be another meeting of the representatives of Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, the University, and Yale in New York next Sunday afternoon. Each college...
...cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping Window Blind". In characterization, narrative skill, and vivacity of style, it is distinctly the best tale in this number of the Advocate; but at the very end Mr. LaFarge, evidently somewhat vitiated by the literary tendencies of the day, wrongly believes that he gains in impressiveness by obscurely hinting at the concluding incidents instead of recounting them lucidly. Curiously enough...
...break out in countless adjectives. The Advocate betrays the presence of the epidemic, though happily in a less serious form than in the past; and by a strange coincidence, in this very number, the excellent review of Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel, "Success", contains a powerful denunciation of the adjectival style. In "The Arrow-Head", the descriptions of the apartment in New York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo...
...Crabb's style is interesting, his plots is well thought out, but his analytical propensities, mentioned above, have too free rein in "Ben Thorpe". Pschycological discussion detracts from the effectiveness of the novel; it is introduced too clumsily, and, therefore, is a confession of weakness. The author is not quite sure that he has brought about the desired effect through the relation of incident and by dialogue. He feels explanation is necessary. In the novel this is of course permissible, but often ill-advised. Subtler methods are generally more successful...
...test of the custom of having the captains of the major sport teams act as cheer leaders. There can be little question now, we believe, that the tradition is a sound one; and infinitely to be preferred to the proposal of having competitions for leaders of the contortionist style...